# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80789"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:13:01.161Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:43:42.439Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80789"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80789.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80789"
title: "nvmet-tcp: bound SGL data length before allocating command buffers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvmet-tcp: bound SGL data length before allocating command buffers\n\nnvmet_tcp_map_data() reads the host-controlled 32-bit sgl-\u003elength\nand, for the in-capsule offset descriptor (type 0x01), checks it\nagainst port-\u003einline_data_size before use. Any other SGL descriptor\ntype -- including the non-inline transport SGL data-block descriptor\n(type (NVME_TRANSPORT_SGL_DATA_DESC \u003c\u003c 4) | NVME_SGL_FMT_TRANSPORT_A,\nthe type a real host uses for out-of-capsule writes) skips that check\nentirely and falls straight through to:\n\n\tcmd-\u003ereq.sg = sgl_alloc(len, GFP_KERNEL, &cmd-\u003ereq.sg_cnt);\n\nwith len taken directly from the wire, unbounded up to 4 GiB.\n\nnvmet_req_init() only parses the command and never inspects\nsgl-\u003elength, and nvmet_check_transfer_len() -- the only other place\ntransfer_len is validated -- runs later, from req-\u003eexecute(), after\nthe allocation has already happened. For a write command the target\nresponds with an R2T and parks the command waiting for the host to\nsend the data; if the host (or an unauthenticated peer that simply\nnever follows up) never does, the sgl_alloc() buffer stays resident\nfor the life of the command. NVMe/TCP has no mandatory authentication\nin the default configuration, so any peer able to reach the target\nportal and complete a Fabrics connect can drive this with a single\ncrafted command, repeatable across queues and connections for\namplification. This is unbounded kernel memory allocation\ntriggered by a remote, effectively unauthenticated peer.\n\nValidate len against the same NVMET_TCP_MAXH2CDATA ceiling this file\nalready uses to bound per-PDU H2C data, for every SGL descriptor type,\nbefore doing any allocation. This closes the gap for the non-inline\ndescriptor while leaving the existing, tighter inline_data_size check\nin place for the in-capsule case.\n\nRuntime-verified on a v6.19 KASAN stand: with this bound in place, a\ncrafted write command carrying an oversized non-inline SGL length is\nrejected before sgl_alloc() runs, where the same request previously\ndrove an unbounded ~256 MiB kernel allocation (up to 4 GiB) that\nstayed resident pending an R2T the host never satisfies."
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